My Master's Backyard

My name is Noel and I have trained in Karate since I was 9 years old. I was later privately trained by two (2) of the best instructors in General Santos City. Master Billy taught me free and open style Karate and Mang Jun taught me COJUKA, an effective local Filipino fighting system. I was also trained by other local "masters" who taught me other unknown forms. This is my blog in my little ways to remember my masters and to help preserve the art.

Sunday, 25 March 2012

This was taken from the video on a mock sparring with one of my private students against a neck choke from the back in the attempt to take me down.

From this position, balance is well maintained when the legs are spread apart and knees bent lower to the ground. An upward head-butt, strike to the face and groin can be fatal.The opponent's body can also become as a "pillar" or a "column" or "support" which is used to lean against in order to slow him down.

Saturday, 24 March 2012

Locks are excellent and effective moves but they all require skills, strength and precision to be able to execute them. Not all martial artists are able to execute locks effectively and in real and practical fight, boxing techniques still dominate all defensive and offensive moves. For COJUKA fighters, hitting nerve points (limbs) hard by way of boxing moves comes first before locks are executed. It is always a common mistake to apply locks when the opponent is still fast, strong and uncertain. The COJUKA practitioner always treats his enemy as if he is armed with a deadly bladed weapon. The best way is to quickly react and avoid the incoming strike simultaneously parrying/ hitting the limbs with fatal punches.

Showing the student how to anticipate the next strike and how to move your body and to parry the incoming strike. Anticipation is always the key - it's either you parry the strike or simply "clip" the limbs into a locking position before they strike.

About Suntukan (Panantukan)

Suntukan (Panantukan) is a hi-breed Filipino art of boxing with various ancient Southeast Asian fighting arts rolled into one. Instead of using sticks (as with Kali or Eskrima), the art employs empty hand fighting skills that are based on sticks, daggers and long bladed weapons developed long before the Spaniards came to the Philippines. The art isn't categorized as a competitive sport because of its fatal applications. The art employs limb destruction, nerve hitting, bone breaking, low line kicks, knee jerking, shoulder rams, elbow strikes and other "dirty" manipulative tactics. The art is widely adapted by the military and police worldwide especially during extreme combat operations. For more information about Filipino Martial Arts, please Google on Kali (Arnis or Eskrima), Panantukan, Dumog and other related and similar arts.

The KOMBOKAN System

I am an FMA practitioner and I use a specific system called the KOMBOKAN which is purely an empty hand combat style similar to that of Panantukan (Suntukan). The KOMBOKAN system is a culmination of various street-based martial arts learning including Karate and Boxing. Majority of the techniques however were derived from Grandmaster "Jun" Ometer's COJUKA (Combat Judo Karate), a defensive martial arts system that he developed in the mid 70's which I became one of his students in the mid 80's.

The KOMBOKAN system is a combination of simple, practical yet effective skills and applications borrowed mainly from traditional Japanese and South East Asian martial arts. This method employs short-range quick combination of punches in stationary position very common in boxing. Also common to the KOMBOKAN system are: Gunting, Emergency Elbow/ Body Blocks, Reverse Blocks, Jerking, Body Twisting, Clipping or (Ipit), Low Ground Fighting, Body/Shoulder Rams, Head Butts, Hair Pull, Parrying Techniques and Dirty and Fatal Strikes to various vulnerable parts of the body.

The system uses very simple and practical moves yet proven effective even against complex attacks. It applies minimum yet swift destructive moves to disable the opponent usually in 1 to 3 moves. Though it is a defensive form of fighting art, the counter-attack techniques could render fatal and leave the attacker paralyzed. The art is only known to very few practitioners as it was only being taught privately mostly at the Master's Backyard.